My Dad is 90 years old today! He doesn’t look it (he looks 10 years younger than that, just as my Mum always used to look 10 years younger than her age).
We are visiting him at his home today; he has had a virus recently so the meal I had planned has been deferred until he feels better. However, I thought it would be interesting to know what has happened on this day in history. So here are a few things that the 16th of March has brought over the centuries:
1322: The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the first War of Scottish Independence.
1792: Assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden (he was shot at a masked ball at the Opera; he died a few days later).
1834: Charles Darwin, aboard HMS Beagle, anchors in the recently British-acquired Falkland Islands for the first time.
1850: Nathanial Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is published.
1867: First publication of an article in The Lancet by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery.
1933: My Dad born!
1934: Academy Award gold statuette first called Oscar in print by Sidney Skolsky.
1935: Scotland beats England 10-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh, to allow Ireland to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship with a 2-1 record.
1940: German air raid on Scapa Flow.
1968: Robert F Kennedy announces presidential campaign
1976: British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announces his resignation.
1996: Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in third round to gain heavyweight title.
2014: Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia.
2022: British-Iranians Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori return to the UK after being detained for five and six years on spying charges.
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